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conduct a canonical visitation. According to a later statement by the chapter, there was some confusion among the Piarists in Warsaw, but they adhered to their views despite Opatowski’s persuasion and warnings. 41 Towards the end of the visitation, in the first week of August 1667, 42 the Provincial Superior sent a letter to the Superior General with a list of candidates for the office of the superior of the province and for the offices of the rectors, so that the Superior Gen- eral might either appoint new superiors for the next three years or approve the current superiors and allow them to continue in their offices. 43 He also wrote about the difficult situation brought about by Fr. Stanislaus, 44 who was soon summoned to Rome. Summons to Rome Father Stanislaus was summoned to the Eternal City by Cosmas Chiara, the Superior General, in two letters sent to the Provincial Superior, Wenceslaus Opatowski. 45 The first one of them was in re- sponse to the letter from the Piarists of the Warsaw house sent about July 20, 1667. The Superior General wrote his letter on August 20, 1667. At that time, he gave Fr. Opatowski his authorization to hold a provincial chapter in Poland. Father Opatowski received the letter on September 20 th . Therefore, on September 27 th , when he arrived in Warsaw to set the date of the next provincial chapter together with his councilor, Fr. Wezyrka, he could have also told Papczynski that he was being summoned to Rome. 46 The next day, Fr. Opatowski sent a letter from Warsaw to the rectors of the houses, announcing the upcoming provincial chapter. 47 The second letter, in which Superior General Chiara summoned Fr. Papczynski to Rome, was written to Fr. Opatowski in the middle of September 1667, in response to the information regarding Fr. Pa- pczynski, sent from Warsaw to Rome around August 9 th . Father Opatowski received this letter from the Superior General in the mid- dle of October and, a few days later, notified Papczynski. Thus, the latter, writing his Protestatio before he set out fromWarsaw to Rome S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 170